Short Term Effects and Identity

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Ecstasy- small colorful tablets with shapes
  • feelings of increased energy
  • feel happy/confident
  • emotional warmth
  • distortions of time

Ketamine(Special K) - Pills or powder
  • makes you go through fazes like black outs
  • forget what happend while you are on the drugs
  • makes unable for the person to use it


Steriods- injected liquid or tablets
  • acne
  • oily skin
  • low on sperm, sterility, impotence
  • excess hair growth
  • deepening of voice

Gamma-hydroxybutyrate(GHB) - can be injected, crystals-like-rocks
  • effects nervous system
  • vomiting
  • drowsiness
  • seizures
  • slow heart-rates
  • Sometimes people combine GHB with other drugs, like Ecstasy or alcohol, which can make it lethal.

Marijuana- greenish-brown
  • Sleepiness
  • Difficulty keeping track of time, impaired or reduced short-term memory
  • Reduced ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination, such as driving a car
  • Increased heart rate
  • Potential cardiac dangers for those with pre-existing heart disease
  • Bloodshot eyes
  • Dry mouth and throat

Cocaine Abuse- White powder or blocks
  • extreme anxiety
  • twitches, coordination problems
  • chest pain, nausea, seizures
  • respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest
  • hydrochionde salt from processed leaves of the coca plant

Methamphetamine Abuse- Whitish-yellow powder
  • increased wakefullness and physical activity
  • decreased appetite
  • changes ability to tell between intensities of light
  • reduces ability to make desicions

Herion Abuse- White to dark brown powder or black, sticky-"tar"
  • flushing of the skin
  • changes in wakeful and sleepy states
  • can't tell the different intesities
  • impared night of light
  • vision, vomiting, constipation

Nicotine- constricts blood vessel & impairs breathing

Abi, Serina, Meagan


http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/sciencebehindaddiction
When you use drugs there is a chemical reaction in your brain that mey cause you to become addicted. Every time you use the drugs again gives you a higher chance of becoming addicted.
-Meagan


http://www.ehow.com/about_5426467_shortterm-effects-drug-abuse.html
This article gives all of the side effects for what all drugs do to you if you abuse them. It says that all drugs can be abused and when you use a higher dose it almost alway has a negative effect.
-Meagan